Hello again. After some massive googling I have found the solution in a very old (for mobile phone standards) post: http://www.techsiddhi.com/2014/05/how-to-resolve-connected-to-wifi-but-no.html For some reason, the ip address coming from my router did not reach the DHCP server ip entry in the phone...

Just to add to the number of users who have this wifi issue and encourage admin to increase the pressure on the developers :D ! I also checked all my router settings, and I tried a public hotspot, as well. Here is what happens every time: The connection to the router is established for a few seconds...

Thanks Parcheval!

Now here you have one ignorant newcomer on this forum: What is a local update and how do I do that....?

Version 20170414 does not seem to have solved the wifi problem. Version shows in system. Have done reset to factory, rebooted several times.Same behavior as in initial post: connecting wifi, message "no internet" and reboot-loop. Stoppable only by being fas when starting and push "wif...